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Hi everyone, I'd like to post my 2c worth (Australian dollars) about this and to, perhaps, provide a different perspective. I'm looking at the gender of the OP and those who have replied. I absolutely do not want to start any kind of 'gender war' but, as a female myself, I can attest to receiving al...

Tamara; As I'm trying to drop the names in my media titles, it's not actually a question of how I name my files, but more of getting enough info into the media record that I know the person to whom the file pertains. Ah. I'm getting lost in all the information. Have you thought about a note for the...

I'm not sure I'm adding anything to this but here's some examples of how I name my census images (I work with folios not people): RG 12_166, Folio 107; 1891 England Census, Islington, London, England This is the same as the title, exchanging / for _: {Dept_Series_Piece_Book}, Folio {Folio}; {Census_...

Just here to agree with all of the posts. As for learning the language of templates: it is a challenge to begin with but, once you've got the hang of it, it becomes second nature. Stick with it. The trickiest thing with coding is that it is absolutely literal. Watch out for spaces where you don't wa...

Another Adrian is joining the conversation. Only this one is less knowledgeable, lives Down Under and may not be as handsome. Greetings, from another Australian :) The short answer is that you'll get a bazillion different versions of how people cite census returns. It's whatever floats your boat in...

Good idea to copy into a separate collection. Thanks for the suggestion! But, no, not importing to a new project, though I may end up creating a new one after cleaning up my templates. Ah! Gotcha. I'd definitely create a custom collection for your source templates. If you're going through stages of...

Northaw BTs available at a FamilySearch Affiliate Library or FamilySearch Centre - see the Catalogue result for Northaw at the link below: https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=6140200&query=%2Bplace%3A%22England%2C%20Hertfordshire%2C%20Northaw%22&subjects...

Why would I like to do this? Because I find it frustrating when adding a new source that the list of templates doesn't appear in update order, so if I have something to refer to outside of FH, I'll know which one to use. I don't dare delete those I'm no longer using as some will still have citation...

Thanks for the post but no amount of convincing would ever see me use EE. It's hideous!

Tamara

Tamara - for some reason I felt compelled to have a look at the Northaw registers. You may know this already but there appears to have been a serious fire there - the 1769-1812 register is only present on FMP as a transcript because the original was so badly burned. Some of the marriages are from a...

LizzieA wrote: ↑14 Mar 2024 21:34 Hi Tamara

They are digitised records (plus transcriptions) which you can either search or browse.

Enjoy!

Lizzie

Thank you! I shall stump up the extra cash and get a three month premium subscription so I can hit the 1921 census hard

I am finally in the next few months going to tackle a several decades old brick wall and I need to look at Hertfordshire parish registers (not available on Ancestry). I see that Northaw is available at FindMyPast: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/articles/world-records/full-list-of-united-kingdom-record...

I appreciate everyone's suggestions. Thank you. It's a great thread and I've gained some useful insights. Thanks for making the post. I tend to refer to the login page when the site requires one. If I don't, I'll usually get sent there anyway. I try to use free sites and the GRO Index part is free,...

Tamara; No problem. We all attack things a bit differently. Perhaps I'll switch to a method like yours once I'm up and running and know my way around FH7 a bit better. My citations are starting to come together, as I continue to develop my templates and play with how I want things to be sorted and/...

Tamara; I don't believe that I ever said that a Bibliography is a requirement. In fact; many people don't use them. However; I do keep a bibliography, just as a convenient list of places where I found certain types of information. It's easier than wading through hundreds of footnotes. My bibliograp...

bibliography sort in a meaningful way. Shoot me down in flames but I don't see the need for a (FH7 constructed) bibliography. I'm preparing my research for submission to my local genealogical society and I have no intention of including one. I'm crafting publications in FH7 and each individual's pa...

I too have a system all my own, one I've been told on a Facebook forum is "wrong", but I am happy with it and that's all that matters' Teresa - also a citation nerd Ugh! They obviously never met my quirky but adorable Medieval History professor who had his own citation system and insisted...

Tamara; I, too, like having proper footnotes. That is why I'm spending the time to create my own variant that brings them back again. Thank you for the examples. My pleasure! I must admit that I find crafting the perfect source template for my own personal use is as satisfying as the research itsel...

"t4ms"; I've been playing with some newspaper article, newspaper BMD announcement and obit, and online obit citation templates. It's taken a while, but I've come up with citation and title formats that seem to work. The big issue has been that the Strathclyde system was designed to elimin...

Helen and Mark; I'm trying to determine a more-or-less standard approach to forming titles that aren't likely to cause collisions. I sometimes have two copies of an image, because some of the info in one is a bit more clear than on the other. As "t4ms" notes, adding the collection and rep...

I have created my own templates. Here's an example the Record Title Format: Record Title Format: {Website_collection}, {Repository} For the enormous number of collections held by Ancestry and FamilySearch I have created a series of separate templates: Record Title Format: {Website_collection}, Ances...

Yep, I've stopped using them with the exception of if a digital image I have of a parish register is a transcript. That's handy for potential transcription errors.

I don't have anything new to add but I'd like to join the chorus of EE is hideous and really grinds my gears. I've created my own templates loosely based on Footnoting (Chicago) which works for me and I'm sharing them with my local genealogical society. But I'm doing that because I'm a citation nerd...

I assume you've checked whether Genealogy SA can display dates in a different format; it's a pity they haven't used the date format preferred by Gedcom but wishes aren't horses, so beggars can't ride. I wonder what other data sources have the same issue. As an aside, I've just checked with my old P...